91 Quotes About Randomness

Every life is a unique random business

Nothing’s random. Even if it looks that way, it’s just because you don’t know the causes.

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books.

In physics—or wherever natural processes seem unpredictable—apparent randomness may be noise or may arise from deeply complex dynamics.

There is more chance than choice in our decisions.

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Boys climb hills “because they are there.” Men climb mountains because they know there is something beyond them and they want to see it. They want to see what is “behind,” “farther in,” and “deeper down.” Men are not afraid of what they will find. They know something is there because no matter where man has looked, there has always been more. Armchair explorers call that more “randomness.” Real explorers call it God.